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DB-Engines Ranking of Key-value Stores

The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to their popularity. The ranking is updated monthly.

This is a partial list of the complete ranking showing only key-value stores.

Read more about the method of calculating the scores.

☐ include secondary database models				71 systems in ranking, March 2026
Rank			DBMS	Database Model	Score
Mar 2026	Feb 2026	Mar 2025	DBMS	Database Model	Mar 2026	Feb 2026	Mar 2025
1.	1.	1.	Redis	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS	145.19	-1.85	-10.17
2.	2.	2.	Amazon DynamoDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	65.42	-2.46	-11.16
3.	3.	3.	Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Wide column store Spatial DBMS	22.75	-1.13	+0.48
4.	4.	4.	Memcached	Key-value	13.68	-0.92	-2.10
5.	5.	5.	etcd	Key-value	7.11	-0.32	+0.03
6.	6.	6.	Hazelcast	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	4.76	-0.58	-0.71
7.	7.	7.	Aerospike	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS	3.45	-0.21	-1.77
8.	8.	13.	ArangoDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Search engine	3.44	-0.03	+0.57
9.	9.	11.	RocksDB	Key-value	3.42	+0.03	+0.27
10.	11.	8.	Ehcache	Key-value	3.16	+0.12	-1.07
11.	10.	9.	Riak KV	Key-value	3.14	-0.07	-0.25
12.	12.	10.	Oracle NoSQL	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	3.02	+0.12	-0.32
13.	13.	12.	Apache Ignite	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.85	+0.01	-0.14
14.	14.	16.	GemFire	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	2.70	-0.12	+0.19
15.	15.	15.	Google Cloud Bigtable	Multi-model Key-value store Wide column store	2.55	-0.02	-0.12
16.	16.	14.	OrientDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store	2.53	-0.03	-0.19
17.	17.	27.	Valkey	Key-value	2.33	+0.03	+1.26
18.	18.	17.	InterSystems IRIS	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	2.04	-0.03	-0.25
19.	19.	20.	LMDB	Key-value	1.95	-0.01	+0.14
20.	20.	19.	Infinispan	Key-value	1.89	-0.05	-0.12
21.	21.	18.	LevelDB	Key-value	1.87	-0.03	-0.28
22.	22.	22.	Oracle Coherence	Key-value	1.68	-0.01	+0.02
23.	23.	21.	Oracle Berkeley DB	Multi-model Key-value store Native XML DBMS	1.62	-0.03	-0.12
24.	24.	23.	Amazon SimpleDB	Key-value	1.56	-0.04	-0.05
25.	26.	26.	GridGain	Multi-model Columnar Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	1.32	-0.02	+0.00
26.	25.	25.	Geode	Key-value	1.32	-0.03	-0.03
27.	27.	24.	Tarantool	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS Spatial DBMS	1.32	+0.00	-0.08
28.	28.	31.	GT.M	Key-value	0.93	-0.01	+0.02
29.	29.	29.	FoundationDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.91	0.00	-0.05
30.	30.	30.	NCache	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Search engine	0.88	+0.03	-0.07
31.	31.	28.	ZODB	Key-value	0.72	-0.04	-0.32
32.	32.	32.	KeyDB	Key-value	0.68	-0.02	-0.02
33.	33.	33.	BoltDB	Key-value	0.58	-0.01	-0.07
34.	34.	34.	Graph Engine	Multi-model Graph DBMS Key-value store	0.56	+0.01	+0.04
35.	35.	35.	Dragonfly	Key-value	0.54	0.00	+0.04
36.	36.	37.	MapDB	Key-value	0.47	+0.04	+0.01
37.	38.	36.	WebSphere eXtreme Scale	Key-value	0.42	+0.00	-0.06
38.	37.	38.	Scalaris	Key-value	0.41	-0.01	-0.02
39.	40.	41.	Cloudflare Workers KV	Key-value	0.38	+0.02	+0.07
40.	39.	39.	Hibari	Key-value	0.36	-0.04	-0.02
41.	43.	42.	LeanXcale	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.29	+0.08	+0.01
42.	49.	40.	Immudb	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.25	+0.08	-0.08
43.	41.	43.	Project Voldemort	Key-value	0.25	-0.01	-0.03
44.	47.	50.	Kyoto Tycoon	Key-value	0.23	+0.06	+0.14
45.	42.	44.	YTsaurus	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.22	0.00	-0.01
46.	45.	49.	ArcadeDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS	0.21	+0.01	+0.10
47.	48.	51.	Tokyo Tyrant	Key-value	0.19	+0.01	+0.11
48.	44.	46.	Faircom DB	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.18	-0.02	-0.02
49.	46.	47.	YottaDB	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.18	+0.00	-0.02
50.	50.	45.	Badger	Key-value	0.10	0.00	-0.12
51.	51.	48.	Speedb	Key-value	0.09	0.00	-0.06
52.	52.	54.	ScaleOut StateServer	Key-value	0.07	+0.00	+0.02
53.	53.	52.	Elliptics	Key-value	0.06	+0.00	0.00
54.	58.	61.	LedisDB	Key-value	0.05	+0.05	+0.05
55.	54.	56.	STSdb	Key-value	0.04	+0.00	+0.01
56.	55.	58.	Faircom EDGE	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.03	-0.01	+0.01
57.	56.	59.	Resin Cache	Key-value	0.01	+0.00	0.00
58.	59.	62.	SwayDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
59.	60.	63.	BergDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	60.	63.	Cachelot.io	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	60.	63.	CortexDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	60.	63.	Helium	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	60.	63.	HyperLevelDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	60.	63.	InfinityDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	60.	53.	JaguarDB	Multi-model Key-value store Vector DBMS	0.00	±0.00	-0.06
59.	60.	63.	Skytable	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	57.	57.	TerarkDB	Key-value	0.00	-0.01	-0.02
59.	60.	55.	Tigris	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Search engine Time Series DBMS	0.00	±0.00	-0.05
59.	60.	60.	Tkrzw	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	-0.01
59.	60.	63.	TomP2P	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	60.	63.	Upscaledb	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00

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